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Cray Introduces Adaptive Supercomputing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the adapting-to-complexity dept.

David Greene writes "HPCWire has a story about Cray's newly-introduced vision of Adaptive Supercomputing. The new system will combine multiple processor architectures to broaden applicability of HPC systems and reduce the complexity of HPC application development. Cray CTO Steve Scott says, 'The Cray motto is: adapt the system to the application - not the application to the system.'"

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  1. Re:Cray as a company in general by SillyNickName4me · · Score: 4, Informative

    The story is interesting, but also full of almost going under, being bought, sold, parent companies going bankrupt and what not..

    The Cray we know now shares a name with the Cray that produced the famous Cray supercomputers of old, they also have some nice technology around, but there the similarities stop.

  2. Re:Adaptive = Adapting for Survive by some+damn+guy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cray already makes systems based on many thousands of opteron processors. You can't beat them for scalar processing power. But what they also make,and still excel at, is specialized vector machines that can work with them. It's two good, but different tools for different jobs. The improvement is to make the two even more integrated and more flexible.